Author Archive

This year’s Transmedialle featured a very valuable discussion between Media Theorist, Florian Cramer and writer and author of Kill all Normies Angela Nagle. Though riveting it was very long with a great many digressions. So this is just scratching the surface extracting some of the things that interested me. There… read more →

An interesting anthropological study has been recently published. The Autonomous Life: Paradoxes of Hierarchy and Authority in the Squatters Movement in Amsterdam, by urban anthropologist Nazima Kadir. Highly organised squatting had a long tradition of squatting in the Netherlands facilitated by a specific law brought in in 1971 that in… read more →

As the battleground for truth spills out from the internet message boards into mainstream politics, Craig G Pennington and David Garcia looks at what lessons can be learned from the tactical media movement. On 26th January 2017, Stephen Bannon – Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist – labelled the mainstream media “the opposition… read more →

APR 17 | ART MONTHLY | 405 | REVIEWS | EXHIBITIONS | When plans for this show began, the UK referendum on the EU had not yet happened and Trump was several tweets short of being president. But subsequent events, buoyed up by populist rhetoric fed with accusatory language about ‘fake… read more →

Martin Bosma, chief ideologue and consigliere of Geert Wilders cut his teeth in Amsterdam’s tactical media scene of the 1990s and explains how Wilders stole the march on his rivals in surfing the chaos of political discourse in the social media age. Martin Bosma, Dutch MP, who serves in Geert… read more →

David Garcia and Annet Dekker – in collaboration with Ian Alan Paul – are the curators of the exhibition As If: The Media Artist as Trickster. The exhibition, focusing on politically inspired media art that uses deception in all its forms, is present in Framer Framed from 20 January until the 5 March 2017. Iterations of… read more →

A lab on actions to overturn alt.right’s victory in the meme-wars. The New Meme Wars Just over a month ago the writer and researcher Florian Cramer gave a lecture in which he made he shared his research into little known factors influencing the rise of Alt.right. The lecture was a… read more →

The Society of Post-Control Conference Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam Sunday January 22, 12.00 – 18.00 In his essay Digital Tailspin, German media researcher Michael Seemann maintains that we have irrevocably lost control of our digital data. Seemann outlines ten rules for our relationship to the Internet under conditions of post-control. [1] The unstoppable… read more →

Varoufakis, the former Greek Finance minister and radical leader of DiEM25 a grass roots movement to democratise the EU, urged progressive members of the Remain campaign, to confront the complete “failure of progressive forces to harness the anti-establishment rage”. And its true, from the outset, we struggled to… read more →

Here’s a novel definition of neo-liberalism: “A neo-liberal is a man who, if he saw the aurora borealis twinkling over a Scandinavian snowfield would only see a missed opportunity for a public private finance initiative.” I have stolen this line (and messed it up) from Stuart Lee, the brilliant English… read more →